All of these statements about consumer society are correct EXCEPT
a. the number of blue collar workers increased after the 1960s.
b. there was an increase in real wages for many.
c. the number of people engaged in agriculture dropped significantly.
d. installment plan buying increased.
e. there was a growth mass leisure.
a
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The Nazis began a ruthless program of wholesale slaughter in their conquered territories as they sought to exterminate various ethnic and religious peoples, but they reserved special focus on an attempt to destroy the entire European population of
A) Jews. B) Gentiles. C) Episcopalians. D) Catholics. E) Muslims.
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A) Caribbean B) South Pacific C) Americas D) Indies
In the mid-1840s, the "Oregon country" in the Pacific Northwest
A. remained the center of the French fur-trading empire. B. was of little interest to the American government. C. included an Indian population that had been devastated by disease. D. was primarily occupied by Great Britain. E. contained many more English settlers than Americans.